by Jay Mariotti Filed under: NBA He is, with no apologies to Isiah Thomas, the best little man ever to play the game. Allen Iverson exudes a sinister sort of energy that makes him appealing in every arena, if also polarizing and detestable. He's fun and dynamic and a perpetual conversation piece, always armed with a combustible dagger on and off the court, yet there's a side of him so unnecessarily...
by Jay Mariotti Filed under: NFL So we gather again collectively, crammed into kitchens and living rooms, ready to feast on food and football. We consume the turkey, the ham, the stuffing and potatoes, the corn and green beans, the rolls and pie, the wine, the beer and anything else we can stuff into our screaming bellies. It satisfies us. It fattens us. Life is swell. And then we look over to the...
Charles Barkley stopped by the "Jay Leno Show" last night and touched on a range of topics with his typical candor. Barkley expressed his interest in becoming a NBA GM, and struck back at people who have questioned his fitness for the job: "It's funny, people talk about you like you're dead, they're like, 'he's not gonna want to work hard.' Dude, I'm in the basketball Hall of Fame. Ain't...
Even though our good friend and dance partner, Jason Whitlock, is annoyed that Deadspin is "baiting its readers to stalk Mariotti," it would be more criminal to waste this picture of Jay's big night...
Charles Barkley joined The Jay Leno Show to say the kinds of things he says whenever he’s interviewed. He talked about wanting to be an NBA GM, politics, and made a Magic-Isiah reference when he told Leno he was gonna write a book and say the reason he quit going on Jay’s show is because [...]
by Jay Mariotti Filed under: NCAA Football The punch, which left him with a black eye outside a South Bend bar in the wee hours Sunday, should remind Jimmy Clausen that it's time to go. No matter who threw the haymaker -- regardless if Clausen actually was protecting his date after she was pushed while leaving C.J.'s Pub -- it should have been clear as he was wrestling on the ground that there's no...
Mariotti's omnipresence on the Chicago bar scene — and recent photos confirming it — have opened the floodgates from numerous other Chicagoans(ites) who've had unfortunate run-ins with...
by Jay Mariotti Filed under: NFL CHICAGO -- Well, that confirms it. When Devin Hester 's pants were inadvertently yanked down Sunday night by a Philadelphia tackler, it proved that a full moon hangs over this bedeviled city. Just what has happened to the parochial mojo here, anyway? Chicago was skunked in the race for the 2016 Olympics, out-Chicagoed by the backroom politics of smirky Eurocrats apparently...
The bar patron who has the cell phone pic which (allegedly) sparked Mariotti getting bounced from a Chicago nightclub last Thursday night has yet to surface, but another reader stealthily snapped him...
We get a massive amount of tips in our inbox each week. Some are pretty interesting, but don't get published for one reason or another. It's usually because they're just so absurd or really lack...
We're waiting for further confirmation on this story, but according to multiple sources, Jay Mariotti was tossed from Chicago'sUnderground Night Club(fixed) last night after he went ballistic on a...
by Jay Mariotti Filed under: NCAA Football If it's true that Kansas football coach Mark Mangino , upon seeing a receiver named Raymond Brown drop a pass, launched into a hideous tirade that concluded with a racially tinged threat -- "If you don't shut up, I'm going to send you back to St. Louis so you can get shot with your homies" -- then the university should dismiss Mangino immediately....
by Jay Mariotti Filed under: NFL CLEVELAND -- The mental welfare of this perpetually beleaguered, nationally pummeled, unemployment-burdened, sports-doomed, pray-if-LeBron-leaves city was fairly stable between 1996 and 1998. Those were the three years when the NFL didn't exist by the lake, when civic outrage over the Browns ' devastating departure to Baltimore faded into a hope that something better...
by Dave Goldberg Filed under: Chargers , Colts , Cowboys , Eagles , Patriots , AFC East , AFC South , NFC East , NFC North , NFL Coaching , NFL Analysis What Bill Belichick did Sunday night has happened before. It justifiably earned Barry Switzer the nickname "Bozo The Coach'' for failing TWICE on fourth down in the late stages of a tie game. And the Eagles' Andy Reid did the opposite of the...
Bill Belichick's decision to try for a first down on 4th-and-2 late in Sunday night's game against the Colts is drawing lots of criticism. With a six-point lead and the ball on their own 28-yard line with 2:08 remaining, the Patriots elected to go for the first down. Brady completed a short pass to Kevin Faulk, who appeared to catch the ball past the first-down line, but did not establish possession...
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